On Sat, 11 Jun 2011, Gary Montalbine wrote:
If Mageia is to grow it needs to attract the normal user. The one's switching
from MS. Many will not know what their video card is or may not even have the
technical knowledge to figure out their hardware. They just want it to work.
In ML I was asked if I wanted to load a propriety driver. I don't recall that
happening here. I had to go find it. On bootup there was a lot of garbage
about radeon and open spaces. I am using the radeon HD 4200 card. I have been
an ML user since 2002 and have been able to work around problems with
forum/mail list support. I have installed it for first time users with no
problem. They were happy.
I can run things like neverball on a Radeon HD 5450 with the regular
driver, so I doubt you need the binary-only driver for your card. We
should however make installation of the necessary firmware files for these
cards very easy. Actually I probably have the same video device which I
disabled when I added the 5450 card, but I don't remember if I tested
3D support.
Again, to succeed Mageia must include what is necessary for the average
non-technical user. I want to congratulate all those who have worked so hard
on getting the first version out.
Sure and for graphics cards that should be possible except maybe for
some nvidia hardware (I don't know how well nouveau works).
Christiaan
